Supplementing citations to PhD theses with citations from Google

Author(s):
Donner, P.
Published
2018
Publication type
Article in monograph or in proceedings

Abstract

While PhD dissertations are a core part of establishing a career in academia the publication type PhD thesis is known from prior research to be very rarely cited. In this paper I study whether the citation data sparsity can be ameliorated by supplementing citation index data, in this case from Scopus, with a further citation data source covering different literatures, namely Google Books. A substantial amount of additional citations was obtained (60%). The differential increase across disciplines is discussed. However, dissertations still remain relatively rarely cited.

Scientometrics
Date issued
2018-09-11
Publisher
Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS)
Is part of
STI 2018 Conference Proceedings (2018), p. 465-471
hdl
1887/65287